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== Brief description of filter ==
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*'''Diffs''': Diffs of sample edits/cases. If the diffs are revdelled, consider emailing their contents to the mailing list.
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Filter edits mentioning "Minus33"

Task: Globally filter out mentions of the brand Minus33 due to persistent WP:PROMO/WP:NOTHERE
Reason: The non-notable (per three speedy deletes, an AfD, and a declined AfC) company Minus33 keeps trying to get an article about themselves on Wikipedia, most recently with a declared COI editor Highland00835 trying to go through an article about the parent company L.W. Packard, which was just actually an article about Minus33 (notice they even used a now-deleted Minus33 logo image as the L.W. Packard logo). Other SPA COI accounts include Csexton3552, Csexton25, Lawdog87, CurrierField, Joel4832, Snowboardernh, and L.W. Packard.
Diffs: diff, notice they even tried using a non-free Minus33 logo they uploaded with the wrong rights for this

diff of deletion history for Minus33. List of sock manufacturers (I'm not accusing the editor who added this, to be clear)

There's no reason this company should be mentioned on Wikipedia unless something changes and their persistence makes it challenging to know where they'll try next.

~2025-34825-61 (talk) 10:40, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like there's another type of sock being manufactured here! Somepinkdude (talk) 02:50, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This request is forum shopping as part of an attempt to prevent Draft: L.W. Packard, the 109 year-old parent company of Minus33, from getting a fair review at AfC. AfC is the primary forum where discussions are already taking place about descriptions of Minus33, as a small part of the proposed page about LW Packard. There have been extensive discussions at Draft talk:L.W. Packard about whether and how to include Minus33 in a page about LW Packard and discussions should remain there, not here.

A page about Packard has been proposed just once so far. A new draft of LW Packard will be submitted again and the extent to which Minus33 should be included should be discussed in that context and/or the context of a page about Packard on the main space if it is approved. I have a WP:COI as a consultant for WhiteHatWiki which has been hired by Minus33, a division of Packard. An employee of Minus33, User:Highland00835, recently submitted the AfC draft for L.W. Packard, but given a barrage of forum shopping and disruptive editing by User:~2025-34825-61 and at least one possible sock of this account: User:~2025-32994-24, I was asked to respond here.

First please note that this complaining user recently said at AfC that L.W. Packard likely meets notability guidelines. [1]. They even inserted material about Minus33 into the AfC draft for L.W. Packard. [2] Indeed, it would be extremely incomplete, or impossible, to write a page about the 109 year-old Packard without describing its remaining subsidiary, Minus33. Minus33 need not be notable to be an important part of the LW Packard page. By asking that Minus33 be filtered, this editor is using this Noticeboard to try to do an end run around a page about LW Packard possibly being approved or what content should be on that page. An AfC draft (heavily edited by:~2025-32994-24 and ~2025-34825-61) for L.W. Packard has only been submitted one time and filtering the ability to mention Minus33 would almost have the effect of salting LW Packard. Other examples of forum shopping on this same question by include:

~2025-34825-61 reported Highland00835 to COI/N Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Minus33 employee attempting to get their article again at Draft: L.W. Packard. Highland00835 had properly disclosed their COI as an employee of Minus33 when they submitted the Draft: L.W. Packard for review in October, 2025. Packard is a 109 year-old company of which Minus33 is the major subsidiary. Requests to take action against the draft and Highland00835 were declined and this editor was told Highland00835 had properly followed COI disclosure policy.
This editor applied for page protection for LW Packard and Minus33 [3] and this was declined.
As noted, this editor extensively participated in the recent submission in the AfC draft about Packard, including rewriting the draft by Highland and many Talk page posts and an AfC Comment. (It is worth noting ~2025-34825-61 removed sources that established notability, adding unreliable sources, and inserted original research, making the page much less likely to be approved,
This editor deleted two AfC Comments on the draft from Highland explaining what their draft had been rewritten and asking their draft be considered rather than this editor’s version. (The removal of the AfC comments, with a link to the more fully sourced draft, made it more difficult for other editors to consider the notability of the company. The draft that Highland00835 asked be considered for the mainspace is here [4] but an AfC reviewer who declined the initial draft likely never even saw this.)
This editor is falsely claiming that the draft about Packard is “actually an article about Minus33”. Whether you look at the draft Highland00835 asked to be considered here [5] or even the draft rewritten by this editor, most of the draft is about the 109-year old company. It includes its surviving active subsidiary, of course, but that’s not the focus of this page, as this editor knows.

I will address the disruptive editing in the proper forum, but I wanted to place this request for filtering in the proper context. I cannot speak to what editors did before:Highland00835. But Highland and I are both acting in accordance with all relevant COI policies. Brucemyboy1212 (talk) 18:05, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~2025-34825-61, ~2025-32994-24, ~2025-37264-39, and ~2025-34841-09 are highly likely to be the same person. But i don't think they're engaged in impermissible sockpuppetry, in the MFD discussion, they stated (as ~2025-37264-39) "I'm ~2025-34841-09 and the editor who rewrote much of the article [referring to ~2025-34825-61 and/or ~2025-32994-24]". I base this off the MFD comment, their shared editing of "Talk:Republican Party (United States)" (09, 24, 39, 61), the MFD (39, 09), their shared attributes viewable to TAIVs (09, 24, 39, 61), and their editing of Tartanry (61, 24). MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 19:25, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming a person

Task: Catch changes to the "name" field in a "person" infobox
Reason: People's names don't change very often.
Diffs: [6]

Maybe something like: If the user is not autoconfirmed, and there are between 2-3 parts in the name, and 2 parts of the name are changed, tag as possible vandalism? Also, the "birth_name" field should very rarely be changed.

This is a very common form of vandalism I find while patrolling recent changes, and it is genuinely never good-faith. The same doesn't hold for other infoboxes such as {{infobox company}} though. lp0 on fire () 20:54, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see this often too. Here is my attempt at changing 391 to stop name vandalism:

!"confirmed" in user_groups &
page_namespace == 0 &
old_wikitext irlike "Category\:Living people" &
added_lines irlike "\| ?[a-z_]+ *=" &
(
    (
        removed_lines rlike "\| ?birth_name *=" & 
        added_lines rlike "\| ?birth_name *="
    ) | 
    (
        removed_lines rlike "\| ?name *=" & 
        added_lines rlike "\| ?name *="
    )
)

MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 20:50, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I just realised that might play havoc with visual edits that automatically standardise the amount of whitespace when editing the infobox (example) lp0 on fire () 20:55, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, looks like that was a source edit where someone manually changed the cosmetics. I'm sure I remember visual edits doing that though. lp0 on fire () 20:58, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I see that somewhat often too. So a better version might be:

!"confirmed" in user_groups &
page_namespace == 0 &
old_wikitext irlike "Category\:Living people" &
added_lines irlike "\| ?[a-z_]+ *=" &
(
    (
        obname := get_matches("\| ?birth_name *= *([^<]*)", removed_lines)[1];
        nbname := get_matches("\| ?birth_name *= *([^<]*)", added_lines)[1];
        obname != nbname
        
    ) | 
    (
        oname := get_matches("\| ?name *= *([^<]*)", removed_lines)[1];
        nname := get_matches("\| ?name *= *([^<]*)", added_lines)[1];
        oname != nname
    )
)

This only returns true if the new name isnt equal to the old name. It grabs the name and stops before any refs. MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 21:38, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

turns out this already exists. its 364 MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 19:44, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I thought this was a proposal to change 364 to prevent instead of tag. My false positive example was a hit to 364. lp0 on fire () 19:54, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ohhh, i must managed to presume it was a diff. It should be possible to merge my filter with the current one to detect pure whitespace changes. MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 19:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Filter 869

Special:AbuseFilter/869 caught an Urban Dictionary link (log entry), even though it is not listed as deprecated at WP:RSP. I discovered this while investigating a failure of Lowercase sigmabot III (talk · contribs · logs · filter log · block log) to archive a talk page that contains it. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 16:28, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LaundryPizza03 Check this discussion - Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_293#Urban_Dictionary. Black Kite (talk) 22:04, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Google Translate

I was referred here by Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#Google Translate.

Task: Warn editors against adding citations to Google Translate in article space.
Reason: The original web page should be cited, not a machine-generated translation, and the language noted. Editors who only speak English can get their own translation if need be. {{cite web}} has fields for English translations of title and quotation, but no citation is needed for the translations, only for the original text.
Diffs: Special:diff/1326327814, Special:diff/1326203741

-- Beland (talk) 19:06, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Addition to filter 614 (or whatever other filter this would be applicable to)

I've noticed this edit made to a page that had the word "masturbators" (misspelled, apparently). Whether this is a common enough occurrence to add to the filter I'm not sure, but considering it was made by a temporary account I would think there wouldn't be any harm to the filter in adding the misspelling. mwwv ^converse∫_edits 20:41, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Adding regex to a filter uses conditions, which contributes to the condition limit. As a result, I don't think we should add this misspelled word to 614 or any other filter unless you have more diffs that use this specific misspelling. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 21:55, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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